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This week at San Diego Comic Con when Dan Didio, current co-publisher of DC Comics, was asked by a fan during the panel why more women didn’t work for DC, he responded by asking: “Who should we have hired?”

Maybe someone should send him a list:

Jill Thompson

Ming Doyle

G. Willow Wilson

Jen Van Meter

Emma Rios

Colleen Coover

Nicola Scott

Fiona Staples

June Brigman

Katie Cook

Barbara Kesel

Jo Chen

Trina Robbins

Chrissie Zullo

Cat Staggs

Bettie Breitweiser

Pia Guerra

Laura Allred

Mandy McMurray

And the list goes on!

There are hundreds of women with experience writing, drawing and creating comics– not to mention the infinite number of women writing indie comics. Women like Adriana Ferguson and K. Van Dam, who write and draw popular superhero webcomic Minor Acts of Heroism or M. Palumbo, the artist behind the popular queer sci-fi comic Starfighter.

DC Comics is giving its universe a facelift this coming September, but it’s not just the characters that are being cut off the roster. Before the reboot 12% of DC’s staff was females– post reboot? It’s cut down to 1%. So much for a more “diverse” company.

The brilliant new comic Manfeels Park, created by two women based in Scotland, pairs scenes from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with actual anti-feminist, mansplaining comments on the interwebs.

As Sarah Seltzer notes at Salon, in a good encapsulation of the feminist response to sexist trolls, most of the comics involve Lizzy Bennet rolling her eyes at the inane comments of the men around her. In this one, Lizzy stifles a giggle at an argument about why women shouldn’t be ordained in the Mormon church…